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Until 1983 this pub was called The White Swan and we paid a visit here about a week ago - I'd had an unmemorable visit about 7 years ago.

The pub is bare boarded with a slightly raised side bar - it's painfully thin on décor. Furniture comprises pus or chocolate brown coloured leatherette banquettes, pouffes and sofas with black tables atop a single chrome pedestal leg; it all looks a bit like a 1980s' branch of World of Leather that's gone bankrupt. Clients, of which there were few, seemed to look like hipsters who'd gone to a not-very-hipsterish part of town. Music played at a muted level, but the aforementioned TVs no longer seem to be in evidence.
Despite being a Fuller's house (of which usually I'm a fan) their beer was conspicuous by its absence: alongside a reversed clip, there was just London Pride at £4.00 a pint.

This is a painfully dreary pub - I rather got the impression that Fuller's no longer care about the place. The Green next door is marginally better, the Betsy Trotwood over the road is a couple of notches up and the Crown Tavern and Three Kings around the corner are far better. Suffice to say, I won't be returning.

Nice looking Fullers pub from the outside with lots of colourful hanging baskets. Then a modern décor sports orientated bar inside with plenty of high stools and tables.
Is probably a decent place when full of punters on a sports night with the multiple flat screens in operation. But on an early weekday lunchtime with virtually no one else in, it’s a bit of a sole less place.
Not helped by the fact that of the four hand pumps , only the ESB and Discovery were actually on from the evening before. Fortunately the Discovery was a good pint, but I probably didn’t experience this place at its best.